There has been recent scrutiny over Planned Parenthood and what it really stands for. Planed Parenthood helps mothers to be as well as young people trying to prevent themselves from becoming mothers get the health care they need and assist them on any sexual related health issue. One if the most controversial things Planned Parenthood provides is the help for a woman to get an abortion. In a recent article a planned parenthood was shut down after Donald Trump won the election for president. Trump has pledged to defund Planned Parenthood as long as it continues to fund abortions. The closing of this site has been taken as precaution in regards to Trumps threats. The question really is, is abortion ok? I think that although hard to come by, yes it is.
Basing my claim off of the utilitarian view I live by, we should do whatever is possible to achieve ultimate pleasure with the least amount of pain. In my book, “Utilitarianism,” I state that, “…Utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure,” This idea is what I call the greatest happiness principle. In the greatest happiness principle, the rightness and wrongness of an action are determined by the amount of pleasure and pain each creates. With this being said, the amount of pleasure and pain are determined by both quality and quantity. However, I think it is difficult to judge different qualities of pleasure unless that individual has experienced both types of pleasure. I also state in my book, “Utilitarianism,” that, “It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.” I think this is a difficult thing to take a stance on without experiencing the quality and pleasure that would come from each position. I think that the best thing to do would be to analyze each position, by looking at it and comparing it with the greatest happiness principle I have talked about above.
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